Helène Aylon is completing a memoir:
WHATEVER IS CONTAINED MUST BE RELEASED:
MY ORTHODOX JEWISH GIRLHOOD -
MY LIFE AS A FEMINIST ARTIST
WHATEVER IS CONTAINED MUST BE RELEASED:
MY ORTHODOX JEWISH GIRLHOOD -
MY LIFE AS A FEMINIST ARTIST
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A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T
"The 70's work was about the visceral and orgasmic body and the inevitability of change; The 80's was about the earth, halting the arms race, uniting women from warring nations; In the 90's my aim was to shine a feminist lens with scholarly inquiry into ancient texts and practices that omit or deny the presence/input of women; In the 00's the G-D work has become more autobiographical regarding my ultra orthodox background.In 1979, I was part of the first conference on Eco-feminism in Amherst, Mass; I saw the body of the land and the visceral body as connected.
After hearing Dr. Helen Caldicott speak of the Arms Race, I drove an Earth Ambulance to military S.A.C. sites in the 80's to dramatize concern for the health of the Earth and concern for the danger of the Arms Race.
After dealing with the military mindset throughout the 80's, I realized early in the 90's that G-D (whatever G-D may be) had to be liberated from patriarchal projections and that I had to deal with my orthodox identity issues."
-- Helène Aylon
P A S T E X H I B I T I O N S:
2009 A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, Rutgers University, The Book That Will Not Close
and Self Portraits, September 8 - December 18, 20092009 Reinventing Ritual, All Rise, Jewish Museum, September 13, 2009 - February 7, 2010
2009 Seder Plate Invitational, Contemporary Jewish Museum, February, 27 – June 2, 2009
2008 “Aldrich Undercover,” (Benefit Invitational) Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, November 21, 2008
2008 Mirror Covering and Sackcloth Rending, "Homage and Remembrance: The Past is Present," Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Nov 1, 2008-Dec 14, 2008
2008 Wrestlers, Talin Art Hall, Estonia, May 23-Jul 6
2007 Solo show, My Marriage Contract, Self Portraits, Wrestlers
Gershman Y Gallery, Philadelphia
2007 Aller Beste Frauen, Self Portraits, Group Show
Jewish Museum of Vienna, to Nov 18, 2007
2007 Aller Beste Frauen, Self Portraits
Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, Dec 19, 2007-Mar 30, 2008
2006 Wrestlers, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco,
"Earthly Concerns: Activist EcoArt"
2006 Bridge of Knots II, American University, Washington, DC, Apr 19-Jul 29
2005 Wrestlers, Brooklyn War Memorial, Brooklyn, NY, Nov 8-Dec 16
2005 The Digital Liberation of G-D, University of Toronto, Canada
Oct 21-Nov 20
2005 Wrestlers, "The Fifth Gospel," Celji-Slovenia, Mar 4-Apr 3
2005 I Look Into The Passages, Mizel Center, Denver, Jan 13-Mar 27
2004 Mirror Covering (for Dobsche), Lodz Biennale, Poland, Sep/Oct
2004 SFJCC The Digital Liberation of G-D, PERMANENT
2004 The Liberation of G-D, Ackland Art Museum, NC
"Five Artists/Five Faiths" Aug 15, 2004-Jan 16, 2005
2004 The Earth Ambulance '82-'92-'02 Hudson Valley Center for
Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY - PERMANENT
2004 My Wailing Wall, installation, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2003 My Marriage Bed and My Clean Days, Jewish Museum of Australia
2002 The Last Supper: Names/No Names, San Francisco Theological Seminary @ San Anselmo (installed again in 2004)
2002 The Partition Is In Place But The Service Can't Begin, Philadelphia Jewish Museum
2001 My Notebooks installation, Women's Studies Research Center,
Brandeis University
2001 My Bridal Chamber, Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, DC
2000 The Liberation of G-D, Jewish Museum, exhibited again for a year
2000 The Book That Will Not Close, with video insert, "Yaddo Writers on Yaddo Artists," (text by Cullin Murphy, editor of Vanity Fair), Art In General, New York City; The Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls, NY
2000 My Notebooks, "Faith: The Impact of Judeo/Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium" (group with Serrano, Turrell ...), Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conn
2000 Video, The Breakings "Body, Performance, Process," The American Century Show, Whitney Museum, New York City (intro Chrissy Isles w/ work of Mendieta & Wilke)
1999 Breaking With Greatest Resistance, "Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form" (group show), Whitney Museum, Stamford, Conn
Breaking Twenty Years Later (performance introduced by Flora Biddle)
1999 Drifting Boundaries, "25/25," Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Calif
1998 Mirror Covering (for the Eleven Million), Bellevue Art Museum, Wash
1997 The Women's Section, "Rage/Resolution" (group w/ Ida Applebroog, Nan Goldin, Nancy Spero), Hebrew Union College, New York City
1996-97 The Liberation of G-D, "Too Jewish," Jewish Museum, New York City (group w/ H. Wilke, R. Pondick, Art Speigelman) toured: San Francisco Jewish Museum Sep 1996-Jan 1997; Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, Jan-Mar 1997; The Contemporary/Baltimore, Apr-Jun 1997; National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, Jul-Dec 1997
1995 two sacs en route, Jumbotron, Times Square, New York City (50th Anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki)
1995 Bridge of Knots, Facade, UC Berkeley Art Museum
(curator, Larry Rinder)
1994 Four Times "Paintings in Transition" (w/ Dove Bradshaw),
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conn
1994 Stone Carrying/Stone Sacs (with Arab & Jewish Women)
Installation: Artists Space, New York City
1994 Bridge of Knots, Harn Museum, Gainseville, Fla
1993 Bridge of Knots, Knoxville Museum, Tenn (facade installation)
1993 Bridge of Knots, video (sound by Meredith Monk)
1993 Songs of Retribution, Anderson Gallery, New York City (Nancy Spero, curator)
1992 The Earth Ambulance 1982-1992, Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, New York City (Cee Brown curator)
1991 Scrap Books '80,'81,'82 , "Burning in Hell," Franklin Furnace, New York City (Book Art, Nancy Spero, curator)
1990 "Up Front/Land Art," Municipal Art Society, New York City (Mierle Ukeles, curator)
1989 Stretchers, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio (2-person show w/ Christo)
1989 Stretchers and The Trial of the Sands of Time (performance) P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
1987 Post-Script video - "Project Conexus," Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York City (traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil)
1987 "Reflections on Survival" (group), LA Women's Building, Los Angeles
1984 "L'Esprit Encyclopedique" (group), Thompson Square Public Library, New York City
1979 Formations (solo), Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City
1979 Formations Breaking (solo) White Columns Gallery
New York City (aka 112 Workshop)
1979 NY Artists: "A Selection from the Last 10 Years" Otis Art Institute, Calif
1978 Nine Artists' Books (group), toured: Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia; UC Irvine; Oberlin College, Ohio; UCSD
1978 Formations (solo), Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco
1976 Paintings That Change in Time (solo) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass (curated by Wayne Anderson)
1976 Paintings That Change in Time (solo), Grapestake Gallery,
San Francisco
1976 "Abstraction in Metal," on Canvas & Paper (group), Dart Gallery, Chicago
1975 "Six Painters, Six Attitudes" (group), Oakland Museum, Oakland, Calif
1975 Paintings That Change in Time (solo), Susan Caldwell Gallery,
New York City
1975 Paintings That Change in Time (solo), Betty Parsons Gallery,
New York City
1972 Shadowlands I and II (solo), Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York City
1972 "Soho Scene" (group), Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
1971 "Painting & Sculpture Today" (group), Indianapolis Museum of Art
1971 "Four Painters" (group), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1971 "Beaux Arts Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition," Columbus, Ohio
1970 "Lyrical Abstraction," toured: Aldrich Museum; Phoenix Museum; Philadelphia Civic Center; Whitney Museum
1970 "Plexi and metal paintings," (solo) Max Hutchinson Gallery,
New York City
1970 "Two Generations of Color Painting," University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
S E L E C T E D A W A R D S & G R A N T S
2010 Brandeis Institute of Research on Jewish Women2007 Pollock / Krasner Award
2005 Brandeis University, Institute for
Research on Jewish Women
2003 Pollock / Krasner Award
2002 National Foundation for Jewish Culture, award for Visual Art
2001 NY State Council on the Arts
2000 Yaddo-MacArthur Annual Award for a residency sponsorship
1999 Yaddo-Philip Morris Award for "an artist who extends the
boundaries of art"
1995-2002 Sponsored Artist of New York Foundation for the Arts
1995-96 Pollock Krasner Foundation Award
1995 Sponsored installation by New York State Council on the Arts,
and Art Matters, two sacs en route, Jumbotron, Times Square
1993 NY Foundation for the Arts, New Genre award
1990 Gottlieb Foundation for painting and sculpture
1989 Harvestworks - Video (Inquiry: The Trial of the Sands of Time)
1988 Art and Urban Resources, Clocktower studio for year
1981 New York Foundation for the Arts, Sand sacs New Genre award
1981 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
1979 CAPS - Painting
1973 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
S E L E C T E D P R E S S
2009 Ancora Imparo, Amy Newman, interview regarding All Rise2009 The Jerusalem Post, Nathan Burstein, Sept 27 re: Reinventing Ritual
2006 New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio, Jan 15 re: Earth Ambulance
2004 NY ARTS, Paula Rabinowitz, Jul/Aug re: My Wailing Wall
2004 San Francisco Chronicle, Hilary Abramson, Mar 28 re:The Digital Liberation of G-D and The Last Supper: Names/No Names
2003 The Australian, Georgina Safe, Mar 14 re: My Clean Days and My Marriage Bed
2001 Boston Globe, Michael Paulson, Sep 21 "An Unorthodox Artist"
re: My Notebooks
2001 New York Times, Dinitia Smith, Jul 19 profile, re: My Bridal Chamber
2001 Around Town, WETA TV, Washington, DC, Best Bets, My Bridal Chamber
2001 Washington City Paper, Louis Jacobson Jun 1, My Bridal Chamber
2001 NPR May 16 Washington. DC re: My Bridal Chamber
2001 Washington Post, Jessica Dawson, Aug 23, "A Feminist's Conflicts of Faith" re:My Bridal Chamber
2001 The Intowner, DC, Anthony Harvey, Aug My Bridal Chamber
2000 New York Times, Grace Glueck, review (re: Aldrich "Faith" show; mention of My Notebooks)
2000 Bridges magazine, "A Conversation Between Artist Helène Aylon and Rabbi Rolando Matalon," Vol 8 (cover story)
1999 Art in America, "Deconstructing The Torah", Robert Berlind, October, feature, pp142-147
1999 New York Times, Roberta Smith, Aug 6, review "When Gravity Becomes Form" re:Breaking With Greatest Resistance
1999 New York Times, William Zimmer, Jul 18, review (re: Gravity...)
1999 Tikkun magazine, "Helène Aylon, Feminism and God," Nan Fink Gefen, Mar/Apr
2000 Catalogue essay, Connie Lewallen (Sr. curator, Berkeley Museum) "25/25" (group) re: Drifting Boundaries, Southern Exposure gallery, San Francisco
1998 Cross Currents: Journal of the Association for Religion & Intellectual Life, review by Ruth Ost re: My Notebooks (cover story)
1997 Philadelphia Inquirer, Sep 24, Edward Sozanski, review
1997 Baltimore Sun, Jean Marabella, "A World Apart, Together in Hope,"
Jun 10, re: meeting of Helène Aylon and Lea Rabin at The Liberation of G-D
1997 Los Angeles Times, "Too Jewish? Good Query" Christopher Knight,
Feb 4, group review (cited at length) re: The Liberation of G-D
1997 Los Angeles Times Calendar, "Too Jewish? Hardly," Kristine McKenna, Feb 2, group review (cited at length) re: The Liberation of G-D
1997 Detour Magazine, "How Jewish is Too Jewish?" Christopher Miles, Feb, group review (cited) re:The Liberation of G-D
1996 Artforum, "Too Jewish?" Carol Ockman, Sep, group review (cited) re:The Liberation of G-D
1996 San Francisco Chronicle, "Artful Look at Jewish Identity," Kenneth Baker, Sep 16, group review (cited) re: The Liberation of G-D
1996 Jerusalem Report, The Arts, Calev Ben-David, May 2, review (cited)
1996 Village Voice, "Jewish Wry," Leslie Camhi, Apr 2, (cited at length)
1996 New York Times, Michael Kimmelman, Mar 8 review, (cited)
1995 Yaddo Newsletter, Public Artists at Yaddo, Nina Castelli Sundell, Fall
1995 Art in America, Peter Selz, December review, Bridge of Knots
1995 El Nuevo Dia, "Ambulancia de La Tierra," Leslie Knowlton, Aug 27
1995 Berkeley Art Museum/UC Calendar, Lawrence Rinder (curator), Jul/Aug, re: Bridge of Knots
1995 Artweek, "Helène Aylon at the Berkeley Art Museum," Anthony Torres, Sep review, Bridge of Knots
1992 New York Times, Roberta Smith, (group review) Aug 28, re: The Earth Ambulance 1982 - 1992, with photo
1989 Le Grif (Paris), "Survive & Continue," Francoise Collin, Winter issue
1989 Women Artists News, Cynthia Navaretta, Spring re: Inquiry: The Trial Of The Sands Of Time
1989 Art and Artists, Virginia Maksymowicz, Mar, re: Inquiry
1989 Art in America, Walter Robinson "Ecology Art Confounds Jury," Feb
1989 San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, Feb 17, article re: Inquiry
1989 Village Voice, Robert Atkins, Feb 14 review, re: Inquiry...
1988 Ms. Magazine, Lindsay Van Gelder "Ecofeminism 101," Jan/Feb
1985 W's International Forum, Gloria Orenstein "Art & Healing," Vol. 8 #5
1983 Vogue, Lorraine Davis "People Are Talking About...," Jul (blurb)
1983 Village Voice, Richard Goldstein, Jul 12, Pillowcase hanging at U.N.
1982 Ms. Magazine, Martha Nelson, Sep (re: Soviet action & arrest)
1982 Quotidiano Donna, Lucia Chiavola, Apr, re: Earth Ambulance
1981 Schachaf (Israel), Jul, review of Stone Carrying/Stone sacs
1981 Artbeat, Suzaan Boettger "From Oil to Stone: The Making of a Political Artist," Feb
1981 Oakland Tribune, Charles Shere, Feb, review Sand Gatherings
1979 San Francisco Bay Guardian, Robert Atkins, Feb 21, column re:
The Breakings
1979 Arts, Barbara Cavalier, Apr, review re: The Breakings
1979 Village Voice, April Kingsley "Nature Takes Its Course," Apr 1
1979 New York Times, Grace Glueck Mar 16, Formations Breaking
1979 Art in America, Knute Stile, #67-Mar, review The Breakings
1979 Artforum, Hal Fischer, #17-Dec, review Formations
1978 Artweek, Mary Stofflet-Santiago, Oct, review Formations
1978 San Francisco Chronicle, Alfred Frankenstein, Oct 14,
review Formations
1976 Women Art Magazine, Lawrence Alloway, Summer issue; Paintings
That Change In Time
1976 Cambridge Chronicle, Ann Phillips, Mar 25 "Aylon's Paintings Flow Before Your Very Eyes," review of the M.I.T. show Paintings That Change
1976 Artweek, Joanne Dickson "Paintings in Process" Jan 17, re: Paintings That Change
1976 San Francisco Chronicle, Alfred Frankenstein, Jan 9, Paintings
That Change
1976 Catalogue essay - M.I.T., Marge Supovitz, Paintings
That Change
1975 Catalogue - Betty Parsons/Susan Caldwell shows, Lawrence Alloway
1975 Art in America, Peter Schjeldahl, Nov, Paintings That Change, Susan Caldwell Gallery
1975 Art International, Carter Ratcliff, Nov, Paintings That Change
1975 Arts Magazine, Noel Frackman, Nov, Paintings That Change
1975 Arts Magazine, Allen Ellenzweig, #50-Nov, review Paintings That Change, Betty Parsons Gallery
1975 San Francisco Chronicle, Alfred Frankenstein "NY," Sep 28
Betty Parsons Gallery
1975 Artweek, RF Stepan "Six Painters; Six Attitudes," Sep 6
Oakland Museum
1975 Oakland Tribune, Charles Shere, Aug 10, review
Oakland Museum
1975 San Francisco Chronicle, Thomas Albright, Jul 24, review
Oakland Museum
1973 Artforum, April Kingsley "Women Choose Women," #11-Mar; Centerfold
1972 Art International, Carter Ratcliff, #16-Jun, review Silver Paintings
1971 Arts Magazine, Gregoire Mueller "Materiality and Painterliness," Sep/Oct article
1971 New York Times, James Mellow, Jun 20, (cited) re: "Lyrical Abstraction" at Whitney
1970 Art News, Lawrence Campbell, Dec, re: Max Hutchinson Gallery
1970 Arts Magazine, Willis Domingo "Recent American Painting," Dec
1970 Art International, Carter Ratcliff, Sep, "Lyrical Abstraction" at the Aldrich Museum
1970 Art International, Carter Ratcliff, Dec, re: Max Hutchinson Gallery
1970 New York Times, Grace Glueck "Highlights of the Downtown Scene,"
Apr 11, re: Max Hutchinson Gallery
1970 Art in America, Larry Aldrich "Young Lyrical Painters," #58-Apr
1966 Art News, Lawrence Campbell "Ruach," #65-Dec (feature); mural at JFK Airport
C O M M I S S I O N S
1978 San Francisco Airport, San Francisco: (Purchase Award, San Francisco Art Commission) Painting That Changes, 8'x 4'1968 New York University Medical Center, Lobby, New York City: 2 walls
1966 Chapel Library, JFK Airport
P U B L I C C O L L E C T I O N S
Baker and Betts, Houston, Tex: Painting, 1976Brandeis University Jewish Women's Research Center, Mass: The Book That Will Not Close 1999
Flasch Artists Book Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Scrap Book 80; Scrap Book 81;Scrap book 82
Harris Bank, Chicago: Painting, 1975, Painting That Changes
Jewish Museum, New York City: Apple Plate, 2004
Jewish Museum, New York City: permanent acquisition, The Liberation of G-D
Jewish Museum of Australia: The Book That will Not Close
M.I.T. Cambridge: Descending Ochre, A Painting That Changes, 1974
MoMA: NY Political Art Documentation Rescued Earth cloth poster, 1982
Museum of Modern Art, New York City: 3 Scrap Books and poster/artifact
New Museum of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel: silver painting, 1971
New York Jewish Museum, Apple Plate, acquired in 2005 from auction of REACH Beyond Domestic Violence, Boston
Oakland Museum, CA: Painting That Changes, 1974
Richmond Art Museum: 2 Paintings, 1972 and Twin Breakings, 1979
(via Sidney Lewis)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: acquisition of a 1979 Breaking
SFJCC: The Digital Liberation of G-D, 2004
Skidmore, Owens and Merrill, Chicago: Painting That Changes, 1975
Westinghouse Corporation: silver painting, 1972
Whitney Museum, New York City: Painting, Homage to Redon, 1971
P R I V A T E C O L L E C T I O N S
Svetlana Alpers (UC Berkeley, Art History Department), CA: 1974 comparison piece Dottie Attie (artist), NY: 1973 workJoan and Ruebin Baron (collectors), NJ: Line Drawing
Luba Belu, Australia, I Look Into The Passages: Abomination
Rachel and Mark Berghash (collectors), NY: Stone Carrying and Wet Painting
Bill and Ellen Berman (collectors), NY: Sand Script (painting), 1972
Bronfman family, NY/Montreal, Ruth Shuman Branching, Margot Lande, silver painting
Susan Chevlowe (curator, Jewish Museum): Earth Ambulance drawing
Marcia Cohen-Speigel (collector): The Book That Will Not Close, 1999 and My Clean Days 2001 silkscreen
Barbara Dobkin (collector & founder of Ma'yan): The Five Books of Moses, Highlighted
Enid Haupt (collector), Philadelphia: Silver Long painting, 1970
Estate of Betty Parsons, New York: Painting That Changes In Time, 1973
Jonathan Ferziger (Jerusalem Bloomberg News): Painting That... 1975
Flora Biddle, NY and Connecticut: 2 Paintings that Change, 1973
Gloria Frym (writer), CA: Wall Drawing 2008
Sara Gelbard (collector), NY/Uraguay: The Foremothers’ Challah Cover 2010
Sally Gottesman (collector), NY: The Five Books of Moses Highlighted 1990
Sally Gottesman (collector), NY: Oval Formation (painting) 1977
Greenline Publishing (collector), NY: I Look Into the Passages: Not Take
Mui Ho (UC Berkeley, Department of Architecture), CA: Painting..., 1973
Michael & Pat Irving (collector), Rowayton, CT: Suspension, 1974
Norman Kleeblat, (curator); I Look Into The Passages (4 of series), 2003
Max/Joyce Kozloff, (critic /artist), NY: Painting That Changes.., 1975
Gail Levin (writer), NY; I Look Into the Passages: Graven
Jane deLynn (writer): The Book That Will Not Close; painting, 1977; drawings, 1997-99
Leveritt Miller (collector), Palm Springs: painting, 1970
Ursula Myers, (collector) San Francisco: Painting That Changes In Time, 1975
Jim Newman (collector), San Francisco: Painting That Changes In Time, 1974
Jerry Ordover, Esq., NY: gold painting, 1972
Howardina Pindell (artist), New York: 1974 work
Richard Price (author) & Judy Hudson (artist): Painting That, 1974
Lea Rabin (wife/Prime Minister Rabin), Israel: Deuteronomy Highlighted
Carter Ratcliff, (art writer), New York: 1972 work
Steve Reich (composer and Beryl Korot, video maker): painting, 1973
Dr. Shulamith Reinharz, Mass, Eve Honey, 2005
Charles Shere (composer and music critic): painting on paper, 1996
Ann Sheridan (collector), New York: silver painting, 1972
Linda Shires (professor), NJ: I Look Into the Passages (4 of series), 2003
Dr. David Silberstein, CA: Tar Drawing 1975
Louis Solomon, Esq., New York: Pouring, 1977 & Homage to Agnes Martin
Nancy Spero (artist), New York: 1973 work
May Stevens (artist), New Mexico; 1973 work
Marc and Livia Straus (collectors), Chappaqua, NY: Four Times (24'), 1974, Breaking 1979, andEarth Ambulance '82-'92-'02
Michelle Stuart (artist), NY; 1974 work
Nina Castelli Sundell Leviticus Highlighted & drawing of sac, 1998
Ann Sutherland-Harris (Art Historian), Pittsburgh: silver painting 1971
Roselyn Swig, San Francisco (collector); I Look Into the Passages 2003
Maurice Templesman (collector & companion of the late Ms. Onasis), NY: Pouring, 1977; silver 1970
Lisa Tillinghast (designer/Dwan Gallery) New York: Silver, 1972; metal, 1972
Rabbi Burton Visotzky (founder - Genesis series Channel 13/ Bill Moyers): Genesis Highlighted
Drs. Youngerman and Scharfman (SUNY Purchase), NY: Breaking
T E A C H I N G
1989 Instructor of Interdisciplinary, Women's Center for Learning, NY1977 Instructor in Painting, Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, CA
Instructor in Painting, California College of Arts and Crafts
1973-1976 Lecturer, Department of Art, San Francisco State University
1971-1972 Instructor in Painting, Hunter College, NY
1970-1971 Instructor in Painting, Brooklyn Museum Art School
V I S I T I N G A R T I S T
2006 Temple University, Philadelphia, J.W. Studies-Judaism & Gender2005 Queens College, Canada From Ruach to The Digital Liberation of G-D
2005 Washington University, St. Louis The Three Feminist Landscapes
of the Last Three Decades: Bio-logical, Eco-logical, Theo-logical
2004 Keynote Speaker at conference of Women's
Studies/Performance Art Northampton University, England;
The Three Feminist Landscapes of the Last Three Decades:
Bio-logical, Eco-logical, Theo-logical
2004 Ackland Art Museum NC - panel w. theologians from Chapel Hill,
NC
2004 SUNY, Purchase: Art Dept. and Women's Studies, "The Earth
AmbulanceMy Bridal Chamber"
2003 Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2002 Temple University, Mar 4 (class of Laura Levitt)
2002 Marywood University, Penn, Apr 10 (Class of Linda Partridge)
2001 Performance at opening of My Notebooks, Brandeis University
Women's Studies Research Center, Oct 16
2001 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, co-sponsored
by Women's Studies Scholars Program, Feb
2000 Fordham University, New York (class of Livia Straus)
2000 Temple University (Honors class of Ruth Ost)
2000 Rutgers University, NJ (class of Alicia Ostriker), May 2
2000 Barnard College, New York (class of Irena Klepficz), Apr 6
1998 Sara Lawrence College, "Word and Image," Jewish Women
Scholars, Oct 18
1998 Mills College (class of Elinor Gadon)
1998 Temple University, Women's Studies, Dec 8
1997 Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA - artist talk with artist
Ken Apteker
1996 Jewish Museum, San Francisco - talk to SF Collectors Club,
Dec 6
1996 Barnard College, New York
1996 University of Memphis
1996 Jewish Theological Seminary, Jewish Women's Studies
(class of Vivian Mann)
1995 University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA , Aug 6 (Larry Rinder,
curator)
1995 Pacific Film Archives/ Berkeley; 6-min video with Meredith Monk
1994 Providence College, Women's Studies
1993 William and Mary College, VA (class of Alan Wallach)
1992 & 91 Sweet Briar College, VA
1989 State University of Iowa, Ames
1989 University of Iowa, Iowa City (class of Hans Breder)
1989 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia (class of Janet Kaplan)
1989 Art Institute of San Francisco (class of Moira Roth/Susan
Griffin)
1989 California College of Arts and Crafts (class of Suzanne Lacy)
1988 Drew University, NJ - "Different Readings," Women's Studies
Conference
1987 Asia Society, NY
1986 International Center of Photography, New York City
1985 Banff Center, Alberta, Canada - Art for Social Change
1985 Nagasaki Institute for Language and Cultures, Japan
1985 Hiroshima Women's College, Hiroshima, Japan
1985 Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Seika College, Kyoto, Japan
1984 SUNY New Paltz, NY - Women and World Peace Conference
1984 Brooklyn College, NY - Women's Studies Conference
1983 City College, NY (class of April Kingsley)
1981 Wizo College, Haifa, Israel
1981 DeYoung Museum (5 artist series)
1980 University of California at San Diego (class of Moira Roth)
1980 CCAC, Oakland (class of Suzanne Lacy)
1980 School of Visual Arts, New York City (class of May Stevens)
1980 Hayward State University, CA (class of Ray Saunders)
1979 SUNY Stonybrook (class of Lawrence Alloway)
1979 Columbia University, NY
1977 Brown University, RI
1977 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1976 University Art Museum, Berkeley; "Artist as Teacher" series
1976 University of California at Berkeley, Department of
Art Education
1975 Virginia Commonwealth University
1975 Brown University, RI (class of Marvin Brown)
1975 M.I.T. (in conjunction with solo exhibition)
1974 Art Institute of San Francisco (class of Joyce Kozloff)
A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S
Closing day of Reinventing Ritual, Walkthrough and Dialogue with Rabbi David Ingber, Jewish Museum, February 7, 2010Exhibit Re-Imagines Jewish Ritual - NPR Radio: Morning Edition, Dec 11, 2009
NYU Center for Religion & Media: Session on Art and New Media, Feb 3, 2006
Web site: Jewish Women's Archives - Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution
Norman Kleeblat read a paper on the Art and Text: Aylon, Neshat at the conference on The Future of Jewish Culture, Toronto 2005
National Foundation For Jewish Culture - 2002 Award for Visual Art, (Introduction by Jeanne-Claude & Christo)
Book: Art of Engagement: Visual Politics from California and Beyond,
Peter Selz
Interview/book: Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties, Linda Montano pp 337-343
WBAI Radio talk with Andres Serrano, re: "Faith" exhibit at Aldrich Museum
Tikkun Magazine, Phyllis Chesler, p 79, Vol 13, May/Jun 1998
Book, The Journey Home: "Jewish Women and the American Century,"
Joyce Antler Catalogue, "Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional
Identities," Norman Kleeblat
Cover for "New Music Composers" CD - Beth Anderson
Book, The Power of Feminist Art, by Mary Garrard and Norma Braude
Book, The Pink Glass Swan, Feminist Essays on Art, by Lucy Lippard
Book, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, by Suzanne Lacy
Panel, Nagasaki Day, Performance: Viewers Lie Down in Ambulance and Talk About Their Dreams and Nightmares, Creative Time, Art in the Anchorage, Aug 9, 1992
Panel, "Ecofeminist Art/Eco-Logical Art": Artists Talk on Art, Nov 22, 1992
Book, The Rivers of Courage: Women's Resistance through the Ages,
Pam MacAllister
Panel, "Feminist Artists' Juxtapositions," 4th International Congress on Women, Hunter College, 1990
Book, The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time,
by Elinor Gadin, 1989
Panel, "Ideas Into Practice," Women's Caucus for Art, San Francisco, 1989
Panel, "Art & the Earth: the New Landscape Artist," WCA/CAA, Boston, 1987
Book Interview by Moira Roth, "Connecting Conversations," 1987
Adrienne Rich invitation Arab/Jewish Stone Carrying, New Jewish Agenda, Santa Cruz, 1987
Heresies Magazine, "On Common Ground," #23
L'Universite Des Femmes, Brussels, Fanny Filosof, Summer, 1986
Book, Art in the Collection of the Oakland Museum, 1985
Included in "A Decade of Art from San Francisco," Thomas Albright, 1985
Susan Griffin: forward, Reclaim the Earth, by Leonie Caldecott
Panel, "Innovative Teaching," Women's Caucus for Art, San Francisco, 1981
Panel, "Perspectives on Teaching," CAA, New Orleans, 1980
Artforum, article by Moira Roth, "Eight Feminist Artists" Nov 1980
Interviewed by Gloria Frym in "Second Stories," Chronicle Books, 1980
One of 50 women artists documented for the National Archives
Interview of Betty Parsons - Cover story WomanArt Magazine, Fall 1979
San Francisco Chronicle, "This World," Alfred Frankenstein, p 27,
Jun 11, 1979
"Women Artists of the 70's," Lawrence Alloway, Metropolitan Museum, Mar 21, 1976
Cover literary magazine, Pequod, Calif. Small Press Publication, 1975
E D U C A T I O N & D E G R E E S
Brooklyn College, Art, BA Cum Laude, BA Cum Laude 1960, Studiedwith Ad Reinhardt
New School for Social Research, New York, 1960-65
Art Students' League, New York
San Francisco State University, MFA Equivalency, 1974
Antioch College West, MA Equiv, Women's Studies/Performance Art, 1980, performance as thesis Sand Carrying
F O R R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S
Joyce Antler, professor of American History and Women's Studies, Brandeis University; Robert Berlind, writer for Art in America; Flora Biddle, Whitney Museum; Christo, artist; Jessica Dawson, Washington Post; Feona Donovan, Board of Trustees, Whitney Museum; Gideon Efrat, Art Historian, Jerusalem; Sean Elwood, Creative Capital Foundation; Allison Gas, curator, SF MoMA; Eleanor Heartney, critic for Art in America; Jessica Hough, curator, Hammer Museum, LA; Susan Isaacs, professor, Townson University; Chrissy Isles, curator, Whitney Museum; Norman Kleeblat, curator, Jewish Museum NY; Joyce Kozloff, artist; Philip Lopat, cultural critic; Rick Moody, writer; Cullen Murphy, ed. at Vanity Fair; Shulamith Reinherz, Director, H.B.I. - Brandeis Institute for Research on Jewish Women; Martin Rosenberg, Chair, Art Dept., Rutgers University; Phyllis Rosenzweig, former curator of Hirshorn Museum, DC; Peter Samis, curator of interpretation, SF MoMA; Gary Schiro, Director, Hudson Opera HouseOri Soltes, Georgetown University Nina Castelli Sundell; Ann S. Harris, art historian.C L I C K H E R E T O R E A D R E V I E W S
Helene Aylon re: G A L L E R Y A F F I L I A T I O N
"After Betty Parsons, my dealer of 10 years, died, I did not seek gallery affiliation as I was involved then with Activist Art - the Earth Ambulance, etc. The work was more suitable for Museums. Now the thrust of that work has been packaged into art and is feasible for gallery affiliation. Therefore, now I am seeking gallery affiliation."-- Helène Aylon
